> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
> On Behalf Of Fazil Saiyed
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:49 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] How to speed up this backup (4GB -> 8 hours) ?
> 
> Hello,
> I misspoke, i did not realize that many files were in the saveset, i
> only
> looked at saveset size, this issue regarding  large number of small
> files
> has been around for long time, the only reasonable option might be
> snapshots and\or NDMP backup ( i believe you can buy and use NDMP
> licence
> for server file systems-please check).
> Thanks
> 


The way I have dealt with this is to split it into multiple savesets
at the directory level.  It made a huge difference in both incremental
and full backup times.

To automate it, I created a script that ran via cron prior to the
sheduled backup time and updated the client saveset configs with the
current directory listing.

Rodney

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